1967 in paleontology

Arthropoda

=New taxa=

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Camponotites{{Cite journal |last1=Steinbach |first1=G. |year= 1967 |title=Zur Hymenopterenfauna des Pliozans von Willershausen/Westharz |journal=Bericht der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Hannover |volume=111 |pages=95–102}}

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Steinbach

Piacenzian

Willershausen clay pit

A formicine ant, type species C. silvestris

File:Camponotites silvestris GZG-W14552B queen.jpg]]

Cataglyphis constrictus{{cite journal |last1=Dlussky |first1=G. M. |year=2008 |title=Ants of the tribe Formicini (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from late Eocene amber of Europe |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=42 |issue=5 |pages=500–513|doi=10.1134/S0031030108050055 |s2cid=84151414 }}

Comb nov

Jr synonym

(Mayr, 1868)

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

Fossil formicine ant.,
moved to Cataglyphoides constrictus in 2008

File:Cataglyphoides constrictus NHMW1984-31-137 head.jpg]]

Archosauromorphs

=Dinosaurs=

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.{{cite web | last = Olshevsky | first = George | title = Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List | url = http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html | access-date = 2008-08-07 | archive-date = 2011-07-15 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html | url-status = dead }}

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Pisanosaurus{{cite journal |last1=Casamiquela |first1=RM |year=1967 |title=Un nuevo Dinosaurio Ornithisquio Triasico (Pisanosaurus mertii: Ornithopoda) de la Formacion Ischigualasto, Argentina |journal=Ameghiniana |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=47–60 |url=http://paleoglot.org/files/Casamiquela_67.pdf}}

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Casamiquela

Carnian

Ischigualasto Formation

{{Flag|Argentina}}

A primitive ornithischian

|File:Pisanosaurus.jpg]]

==Birds==

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Aechmophorus elasson {{cite journal \|last1=Murry \|first1=BG Jr. \|year=1967 \|title=Grebes from the Late Pliocene of North America \|journal=Condor \|volume=69 \|issue= 3\|pages=277–288 \|doi=10.2307/1366317 \|url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v069n03/p0277-p0288.pdf\|jstor=1366317 }} \| Sp. nov. \| Valid \| Murray \| Late Pliocene \| Glenns Ferry Formation \| {{Flag\|USA}} ({{Flag\|California}}) \| A Podicipedidae. \|
Asio brevipes {{cite journal \|last1=Ford \|first1=NL \|last2=Murry \|first2=BG Jr \|year=1967 \|title=Fossil Owls from the Hagerman Local Fauna (Upper Pliocene) of Idaho \|journal=Auk \|volume=84 \|issue=1 \|pages=115–117 \|doi=10.2307/4083261 \|url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v084n01/p0115-p0117.pdf\|jstor=4083261 }} \| Sp. nov. \| Valid \| Ford & Murray \| Late Pliocene \| Glenns Ferry Formation \| {{Flag\|USA}} \| A Strigidae. \|
Eogrus wetmorei {{cite journal \|last1=Brodkorb \|first1=P \|year=1967 \|title=Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 3 (Ralliformes, Ichthyornithiformes, Charadriiformes) \|journal=Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences \|volume=11 \|pages=99–220 \|url=http://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/00/00/15/35/00001/UF00001535_00001pdf.pdf}} \| Sp. nov. \| Valid \| Brodkorb \| Late Miocene \| Tungur Formation \| {{Flag\|Mongolia}} \| An Eogruidae \|
Gallinula kansarum \| Sp. nov. \| Valid \| Brodkorb \| Early Pliocene \| Bone Valley Formation \| {{Flag\|USA}} \| A Rallidae. originally Fulica americana, redescribed 1967. \|
Hirundo aprica {{cite journal \|last1=Feduccia \|first1=A \|year=1967 \|title=A New Swallow from the Fox Canyon Local Fauna (Upper Pliocene) of Kansas \|journal=Condor \|volume=69 \|issue= 5\|pages=526–527 \|doi=10.2307/1366152 \|url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v069n05/p0526-p0527.pdf\|jstor=1366152 }} \| Sp. nov. \| Valid \| Feduccia \| Late Pliocene \| Rexroad Formation \| {{Flag\|USA}} \| A Hirundinidae. \|
Limosa ossivallis \| Sp. nov. \| Valid \| Brodkorb \| Early Pliocene \| Bone Valley Formation \| {{Flag\|USA}} \| A Scolopacidae. \|
Ortalis affinis {{cite journal \|last1=Feduccia \|first1=A \|last2=Wilson \|first2=RL \|year=1967 \|title=Avian fossils from the Lower Pliocene of Kansas \|journal=Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan \|volume=655 \|pages=1–6 \|url=http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/57091/OP655.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y }} \| Sp. nov. \| Valid \| Feduccia & Wilson \| Early Pliocene \| Ogallala Formation \| {{Flag\|USA}} \| A Cracidae. \|
Pararallus hassenkampi {{cite journal \|last1=Martini \|first1=E \|year=1967 \|title=Pararallus hassenkampi n.sp., eine Neue Rallen-Art (Aves) aus dem Oligozän von Sieblos/Rhön \|journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen \|volume=127 \|pages=288–292 }} \| Gen. et sp. nov. \| Valid \| Martini \| Early/Middle Oligocene \| \| {{Flag\|Germany}} \| Described in Rallidae, better treated as Aves Incertae Sedis.{{citation needed\|date=April 2015}} \|
Pliolymbus \| Gen. et sp. nov. \| Valid \| Murray \| Late Pliocene \| Glenns Ferry Formation \| {{Flag\|USA}} \| A Podicipedidae, type species P. baryosteus \|
Pliopicus \| Gen et sp. nov. \| Valid \| Feduccia & Wilson \| Early Pliocene \| Ogallala Formation \| {{Flag\|USA}} ({{Flag\|Kansas}}) \| A Picidae. Type species P. brodkorbi \|
Podiceps discors \| Sp. nov. \| Valid \| Murray \| Late Pliocene \| Glenns Ferry Formation \| {{Flag\|USA}} ({{Flag\|California}}) \| A Podicipedidae. \|
Podilymbus majusculus \| Sp. nov. \| Valid \| Murray \| Late Pliocene \| Glenns Ferry Formation] \| {{Flag\|USA}} \| A Podicipedidae. \|

=Pterosaurs=

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Pteromonodactylus

Junior synonym

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Teriaev

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Late Jurassic (Tithonian)

Solnhofen Limestone

A junior synonym of Rhamphorhynchus.

Synapids

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Massetognathus

Valid

Alfred Sherwood Romer

Middle Triassic

Chañares Formation

{{Flag|Argentina}}

A traversodontid cynodont.

|File:Massetognathus.jpg]]

Limnostygis

Valid

Carroll

Pennsylvanian

{{Flag|Canada}} ({{Flag|Nova Scotia}})

A member of Limnoscelidae.

Popular culture

=Literature=

Bronto the Dinosaur was published. Its storyline was similar to another 1960s work aimed at children,Pataud, le petit dinosaure. The book was marketed as "educationally sound, paleontologist William A. S. Sarjeant said the book "cannot justly make that claim" on the basis of several scientific improbabilities.

References

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Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, p. 504-529.

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